 As
your wedding officiant, my function is to be present to you
as a couple, preparing for marriage, to be a collaborator
in the creation of a ceremony that expresses the depth and
uniqueness of your union. |
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As
Your Officiant
As your wedding officiant, my function is to
be present to you as a couple, preparing for
marriage, to be a collaborator in the creation
of a ceremony that expresses the depth and uniqueness
of your union.
With 25 years of experience as an Episcopal
priest, a weaver and embracer of many religious
and spiritual practices, and a professional
background as an event producer, I offer these
skills in the practice of this ministry. |
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experience in working with many couples in preparing
for their marriage, conducting the ceremony and counseling
them as they continue in their relationship, I have
created a stream-lined formula for our preparation together.
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Origin
of Sacred Fire Ceremonies
I created Sacred Fire Ceremonies to offer new "containers"
for communally consecrated ritual events. Having traveled
deeply within the tradition of The Episcopal Church,
I am led to minister beyond that convention. My vocation
as a priest continues, being a person called to gather
and bring witness to the Spirit.
If you have found this website and have read this far,
you are, most likely, also looking for a ceremony that
both honors some sense of tradition coupled with innovation
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Producing
Your Event
From the decision to get married to the ceremony and
reception, you are embarking on a journey that is a
spiritual "production." You are creating an
event that is a collaboration first between yourselves,
then your families, communities and those that you commission
to fulfill your vision.
Sacred Fire Ceremonies offers you skilled event coordination
and production services as well as a substantial network
of talent from which to choose. We envision this website
as an idea generating resource as you consider the kind
of wedding you are seeking to create. |
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Healing
Practitioners:
Our Commitment to your Relationship Before, During and After
Marriage is a crucible for the spiritual evolution of both
partners. We are all related in the web of life; thus the
alignment of our relationships affects us all.
Those of us who work together at Sacred
Fire Ceremonies, build conscious community wherever
and whenever we fulfill our mission. Your wedding is a profound
moment of community. In collaborating with you, we have begun
a relationship and as such offer healing practices that may
serve the endurance, longevity and depth of your intimacy.
A Feng Shui marriage consultation, a massage chair at your
wedding reception, an opportunity to experience a purification
sweat lodge prior to your ceremony are examples of what can
make your wedding a deep, unusual and memorable celebration. |
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Binding
& Loosing:
Rites of Passage and Rites of Initiation
On occasion, should you or those close to you be in need
of further pastoral or ritual services, we would be honored
to consult with you about how best to be of assistance.
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Sacred Fire Ceremonies has produced and officiated at
many "site-specific" locales both in the Hudson
River Valley and New York City. We are proficient at
working in both indoor and outdoor settings, traditional,
off beat, and in between.
We have relationships with various interesting venues
and locations in the region with whom we work on a regular
basis. |
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